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The fall season kicks off with some laughs, some music and some heavy themes about America, race and capitalism.
Fall festivals in comedy and Latino theater? Boop-Oop-a-Doop!
The fall season kicks off with a series of festivals.
The goal of the evening is to serve as an "appetite whetter" for the Lyric's new season.
Harris will kick off its emerald anniversary with an all-day, outdoor festival spread across Millennium Park. Festivities culminate in a three-hour performance in the Pritzker Pavilion of a …
Pharoah will be bringing his potent mix of impersonations and vividly funny tales of his personal life to the stage of Chicago's Den Theatre August 26 as he tapes a new hourlong special.
"The Light" by Loy A. Webb is a seventy-minute one act play about a young Black couple who struggle with a revelation from the past that threatens to break up their budding relationship.
"Dance for Life" is an annual concert that raises money for The Dancers' Fund, which provides health care assistance for dancers and people who work in the dance field. But it also happens t…
As a fan-favorite monthly panelist on the long-running comedic game show "Wait.. Wait…Don't Tell Me!," comedian Alonzo Bodden has been bringing some of the sharpest political jokes on the …
I agree with real-life director L. Walter Stearns' note in the program, that "This show has a little something to offend everyone." The goal is not to offend for the sake of offending, howev…
What is wonderful about "MJ: The Musical" is that it raises as many meaningful questions about creativity when it has a cavernous cultural response and impact as it answers.
"Next to Normal," with music by Tom Kitt and book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, is not up to the challenge and complexity of its subject.
Performances by Muntu invoke the power of the past in brilliant hues and thunderclaps: drumming, dance and song so joyfully kinetic it would be cruel to ask any other company to follow them.
Big musicals, star comedians and a show on the beach: summer's last dance.
This "Beauty and the Beast" at Chicago Shakes brings a lot of well-honed magic to its shortened form and is a perfect summery confection.
Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land""the Nobel Prize-winning writer's 1975 play, masterfully revived at Steppenwolf"is a rich and strange theater experience.
Great dance heats up August: North Side, South Side, West Side and Downtown.
If you're in the mood for a raunchy rock concert but want to get to bed at a decent time, then check out "Rock of Ages."
Chicago's longest-running long-form improv show features one of the city's most beloved improv stars when T.J. Jagodowski takes the stage as the guest monologist for "The Armando Diaz Experi…
In a Northwest Side warehouse, you can visit the apartment of a Mexican family, anxious because the father has been deported. Or a multi-generation Filipino family, about to cook supper. The…
Midsommer's new production, playing in Chicago parks through August 13, shows that in the right hands, "Cymbeline" is funny, compelling and surprisingly touching.
This Saturday, oft-overlooked artists take over the Chicago Cultural Center in the first DisFest, a daylong festival featuring multidisciplinary work by artists with disabilities. Thirty art…
Oak Park Festival Theatre launches its forty-eighth season with Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," staged within Oak Park's leafy Austin Gardens.
Metropolis Performing Arts breathes new life into their production of "Xanadu," directed by Kevin Wiczer, with choreography by Kristine Burdi and musical direction by Kenny McMullen.
George Brant's "Marie and Rosetta" at Northlight Theatre offers both great music and a real story. Directed by E. Faye Butler, it's about the friendship and musical collaboration between Sis…
